Plunger-operating numbering-machine.



PATENTBD 001230, 1906.

INo'.834,556.

MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAYZI, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN Gr. BATES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR T 0 THE BATES MACHINECOMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

PLUNGER-OPERATING NUMBERING-MACHINVE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 30,, 1906.

Application filed May 21, 1906. Serial No. 317,900.

zen of the United States, residing at New York city, New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Plunger- OperatingNumbering Machines, of which the following is a clear, full, and exactdescription.

The object of this invention is to provide aplunger-operatednumbering-machine-such, for example, as shown in InUnited States Patent No. 676,084, dated une 11, 1901 with a simple andefficient means for operating the same from a plunger located at adistance from the machine, but adapted for operation by the printingmotion.

In carrying out this invention I make use of a block carrying a meansfor operatively engaging the pawl-plate ofthe machine and I provide ashaft preferably slidable through the block and controlling the engagingmeans in the block. I prefer to make this shaft in sections coupledtogether, as by dovetailed slots and projections. To the other end ofthe shaft I attach another engaging means, as by a pin, this engagingmeans being located in a plunger-block carrying the ordinaryspring-pressed plunger, car ing a rack or other known engaging means oroperatively connecting the plunger to the pinned engaging means on theshaft. I prefer to provide the slidable block with ready means forattaching to the frame of the numberingmachine, and I'prefer for thispurpose to provide pins on the block to engage the holes in the frame,which are usually engaged by the pins of the side plates, shown in thepatent before described.

My invention will beset. forth inthe claims.

Figure 1 is a plan of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a front elevation ofthe same. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a frontplan of the block removed from the I numbering-machine; and Fig. 5 is asection on line 5 5, Fig. 1.

As shown on the drawings, the numberingmachine of the patenthereinbefore referred to is shown without a plunger, the same be ingremoved, leaving exposed the spring-recess 2 and the guide-recesses 3 inthe frame 1. The machine is also provided with numbering-wheels 5 ofordinary construction, and one side plate 4 is shown as retained on themachine in the front. A main shaft 6 carries the swing arm 7 of thepawl-plate, which is shown as provided with operating-teeth 8.

The block 13 is provided with a slot 12, in which is held an engagingmeans for the teeth 8 on the pawl-plate. This engaging means consists ofan arm 10 with teeth 9 at its end and has a central opening for theshaft 15, provided with an inwardly-turned projection 11, fitting thekeyway 27in the shaft. Pins 14 serve to prevent the removal of the arm10, but allow it a slight motion when not engaged by the shaft, so-thatthe shaft may readily find its way through the central 0 ening of thearm. Pins 26 on the face 0 the block are adapted to fit into theopenings for the side plate in the manner shown in Fig. 1.

The plunger is of the general construction of the patent before referredto, and consists of the slotted block 21, carrying a spring 23, and theusual guide-pins 22 secured by pin 25. From the plunger 24 extends arack 18, constituting an operating means for oscillating the shaft, towhich shaft 1.5 there is se cured, as bya pin 20, an arm 16 providedwith teeth 17, engaging the rack 18.

The shaft 15 is composed of a number of similar sections, one end 29 ofeach section being dovetailed to form a groove and the other end havinga dovetailed projection 28 upon it. I

In operation the parts are locked in a frame, as usual, and upon thedepression of the plunger-head 24 the rack 18 will oscillate the arm 16,rock the shaft 15, and with it the army 10 to move the pawl-plate 7 inthe usualmanner and as described in my aforesaid patent. Though I haveshown but one block and numbering-machine in the drawings, it will beobvious to one skilled in the art that a number of such blocks andmachines may be placed on a single shaft.

What I claim as my invention is 1. A frame, wheels, a shaft therefor,and a pawl-plate carried thereby, an operating means carried by theplate, a block adjacent to the side of the machine and parallel with theaxis of its wheel shaft, carrying an operating means engaging said firstoperating means, a rod independent of the wheelshaft, engaging saidsecond operating means and carried by the block, and a plunger andframe, said plunger carrying a third operating means and a fourthoperating means engaged by said rod and engaging said third operatingmeans,

' ing a third operatingmeans said rod in operative position of the partsbeing slidable through one of the operating means engaged by it.

2. A frame, wheels and a pawl-plate carried thereby, an operating meanscarried by the plate, a block carrying an operating means engaging saidfirst operating means, a rod engaging said second operating means and aplunger and frame, said plunger carrying'a third operating means and afourth operating means engaged by said shaft and engaging said thirdoperating means, said rod being slidable through one of the operatingmeans engaged by it, said rod being in sections and coupling meansbetween the sections.

3. A frame, wheels and a pawl-plate carried thereby, an operating meanscarried by the plate, a block carrying an operating means engaging saidfirst operating means, a rod engaging :said second operating means and aplunger and frame, said plunger carryand a fourth operating meansengaged by said shaft and engaging said third operating means, said rodbeing slidable through one of the operating means engaged by it, a pinpassing through said fourth operating means, a keyway in the shaft, saidsecond operating means having an interior opening, and aninwardly-projecting pin engaging the keyway in the shaft.

frame, wheels and a pawl-plate carried thereby, an operating meanscarried by the plate, a block carrying an operating means engaging saidfirst operating means, a rod engaging said second operating means and aplunger and frame, said plunger carrying a third operating means and afourth operating means engaged by said shaft and engaging said thirdoperating means, said rod being slidable through one of the operatingmeans engaged by it, one of the shaft-operating means having a centralopening and an inwardly-projecting pin, the shaft having a keywayengaged thereby.

5 A frame, wheels and a pawl-plate carried thereby,

an operating means carried by the plate, a

block carrying an operating means engaging said second operating means,

a rod engaging said second operating means and a plunger and frame, saidplunger carrying a third operating means and a fourth operating meansengaged by said shaft and engaging said third operating means, said rodbeing slidable through one of the operating means engaged by it, saidblock and said machine-frame being so secured that when not looked upthey can be separated from one another, by merely moving one relativelyto the other.

6. A frame, wheels and a pawl-plate carried thereby, an operating meanscarried by the plate, a block carrying an operating means engaging saidsecond'operating means, a rod engaging said second operating means and aplunger and frame, said plunger carrying a third operating means and afourth operating means engaged by said shaft and engaging said thirdoperating means, said rod being slidable through one of the operatingmeans engaged by it, said block and said maehine-framebeing so securedthat when not looked up they can be separated from one another, bymerely moving one relatively to the other, said block having projectingpins and said machine-frame having holes to be engaged thereby 7. Aframe, wheels and a pawl-plate carried thereby, an operating meanscarried by the plate, a block carrying an operating means engaging saidfirst operating means, a rod engaging said second operating means and aplunger and frame, said plunger carrying a third operating means and afourth. operating means engaged by said shaft and engaging said thirdoperating means, said rod being slidable through one of the operatingmeans engaged by it, one of the shaft-operating means having a centralopening and an inwardly-projecting pin, the shaft having a keywayengaged thereby, said operating means being mounted in the block so asto have a free limited motion therein when not engaged by said rod.

8. A frame, wheels and a pawl-plate carried thereby, an operating meanscarried by the plate, a block carrying an operating means engaging saidfirst operating means, a rod engaging said second operating means and aplunger and frame, said plunger carrying a third operating means and afourth operating means engaged by said shaft and engaging said thirdoperating means, said rod being slidable through one of the operatingmeans engaged by it, the operating means of the block having aprojecting arm extending outwardly and havin a toothed outer end forengagement with the operating means on the pawl-plate.

9. A frame, wheels, a shaft therefor, and a pawl-plate carried thereby,an operating means carried by the plate, a removable block carrying anoperating means engaging said first operating means, a rod independentof the wheel-shaft and located in said block and engaging said secondoperating means, and a plunger and frame, said plunger carrying a thirdoperating means and a fourth operating means engaged by said rod andengaging said third operating means, said rod in operative position ofthe parts being slidable through one of the operating means engaged byit, and detachable securing means between the block and frame.

Signed at New York city this 19th day of May, 1906.

EDWIN G. BATES.

Vvitnesses B. B; CONRAD, CARRIE E. WYLIE.

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